ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,890, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Active transport based notifications" was invented by Thomas Robert Gruber (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Alessandro F. Sabatelli (San Francisco), Alexandre A. Aybes (San Francisco), Donald W. Pitschel (San Francisco), Edward D. Voas (Mountain View, Calif.), Freddy A. Anzures (San Francisco) and Paul D. Marcos (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for triggering an action associated with a task items are provided. A task item associated with a triggering criterion is provided. The triggering criterion requires an occurrence of any of a plurality of...